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June 3, 2008

G61: Red Sox 7, Rays 4

Masterson was solid (6-6-4-2-5, 91), Manny Delcarmen and Craig Hansen looked great, Mike Lowell opened the scoring with a two-run dong in the second, and Coco Crisp put the game on ice with a two-run double in the sixth ... but the star of the night was J.D. Drew.

Drew doubled in the second, hit a solo home run in the fourth, walked and scored in the sixth, and made two outstanding catches in right field in the fourth and fifth innings.

In New York, Joba Chamberlain threw 37 pitches in his first inning of work -- almost a career-high number of pitches for an outing -- walking three Blue Jays and committing a balk. He lasted only 2.1 innings; Toronto used a six-run seventh to grab a 9-3 win. ... Baltimore beat Minnesota, so the Yankees (28-30) are back in the basement (7 GB).

So NESN had three days to plan this whole thing out. My plan would've been "Point camera at Manny when he comes up, keep it on him." Apparently theirs was, "Show Manny for two seconds, then some boob in the crowd for five, then Manny for two, then another lame sign for ten, and be sure to MISS his entire hat tip even though it lasted a full three seconds."

Pedro Martinez starts tonight against San Francisco... Forgot about that. Had all of this excitement with the Red Sox back at Fenway, Manny's hat-tip, and female bits pitching in a toilet. Forgot that Pedro's making his comeback tonight.

Someone's here looking at my apartment with the landlord....so weird, I'm talking about them behind their backs to you people... I wonder if he reads my blog. Or this blog. And is oblivious. And now I can cheer out loud for this JD Dong... shhhh

Allan--I actually did see that. I check Yankee blogs maybe....once a year...but now that I go to Cardboard Gods so much, I can't help to see the headlines for the other blogs there, like Bronx Banter--and I definitely clicked that one. Hilarious. I don't remember that thing at all.

These days all I can think of with McCain is that time he stood on a stage, looked at a camera, and said (with a little bit of a laugh, like that kind of a laugh that you hear when someone's saying "This is never gonna happen!")... "I will never surrender from Iraq. Never!"